Window-shade fixture.



' W. G. TEMPLETON.

WINDOW SHADE FIXTURE. APPLICATION rum) JUNE 2, 1910.

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WINDOW-SHADE FIXTURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 9, 1912.

Application filed June 2, 1910. Serial No. 564,611.

all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM G. TEMPLE- TON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Colorado Springs, in the county of El Paso and State of Colorado, have invented a new and useful lVindow-Shade Fixture, of which the following is a specification.

It is the object of this invention to provide a window shade fixture so constructed that it may readily be elongated or shortened to fit window frames of different widths.

Another object of the invention is to provide novel means for mounting a window shade fixture upon a window frame to slide vertically thereon.

Another object of the invention is to provide, in a window shade fixture comprising telescopic parts, a suspension device adapted to serve as a clamp to limit the relative movement of the said telescopic parts.

Another object of the invention is to provide novel means for assembling the cur tain supporting member, the bracket, and the sleeve which is adapted to receive the guide upon which the window shade fix ture slides.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a fragmental front elevation; Fig. 2 is a transverse section upon the line 22 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a section upon the line 33 of Fig. 1; Fig. A is a fragmental front elevation of a modification; Fig. is a transverse section upon the line 55 of Fig. 4; and Fig. 6 is a fragmental perspective of the device shown in Fig. 1.

In the drawings, the casing of a window is shown, and denoted generally by the numeral 1. Vertically disposed rods 2 are held in suitable brackets upon the casing 1, these rods constituting guides upon which the curtain supporting member 3 is adapted to slide vertically, the curtain supporting member carrying the curtain A which may be of the common spring actuated type. One end of a flexible element 5 is connected with the curtain supporting member 3 intermediate the ends thereof, the free end of the flexible element 5 being carried over a pulley 6 mounted upon the upper portion of the casing. This flexible element 5 constitutes the means for raising and lowering the curtain supporting member 3 and the curtain 4:, the curtain 4 being capable, as hereinafter shown, of being rolled up and unrolled in the usual manner, independently of the lifting of the curtain supporting member 3 by means of the flexible element 5.

The curtain supporting member 3 comprises telescopic parts 7 and 8, the part 8 being adapted to slide within the part 7. These parts 7 and 8 are preferably fashioned from flat strips of metal, the longitudinal edges of which are overlapped and bent toward each other, as denoted by the numeral 9, so that the parts 7 and 8 may be described broadly as being trough shaped elements.

Upon the remote ends of the parts 7 and 8, curtain brackets 10 are mounted, these brackets being, of the common and well known type, adapted to receive the curtain roller. The curtain brackets 10 are disposed upon the forward faces of the parts 7 and 3 adjacent the ends thereof. Disposed transversely of the parts 7 and 8, and located upon the rear faces of said parts, and adjacent their ends, are travelers 11. The longitudinal edges of these travelers 11 are rolled in a common direct-ion, to form seats 12, and in either of these seats 12, of each of the travelers 11, the rods or guides 2 are adapted to be received. Thus two guides may be accommodated at each end of the curtain supporting member 3. Likewise, when a single guide is employed at each end of the curtain supporting member 8, the said member may readily be elongated or shortened to permit a new seat 12 to be engaged by the guide, should the seat in use become worn or damaged.

One or more rivets 14C, or like securing elements are extended through the bracket 10, through the parts 7 and 8, and through the traveler 11, intermediate the seats 12 thereof, as seen most clearly in Fig. 3. The three parts 7 or 8, 11 and 10 are thus held together by a single set of elements. As seen in Fig. 3 and there denoted by the numeral 21, the securing elements are headed, the members 10 and 11 acting as washers to receive these heads 21 of the securing elements.

The mounting of the securing elements 14 in place, serves to compress the parts 7 and 8 as denoted by the numeral 15, this compressed portion of the outer of the telescoping members, serving as a stop to limit the longitudinal sliding movement of the inner of said telescoping members, this feature being most clearly discernible in Fig. 3.

The parts 7 and 8 are inclosed by a U-shaped clamp 16, the depending arms of which are united, below the curtain supporting member 3, as seen most clearly in Fig. 2, by a bolt and nut 17, or other suitable compressing means. In the curved portion of the clamp 16 there is an opening adapted to receive the flexible element 5, the said flexible element being knotted, or otherwise enlarged terminally, between the curved portion of the clamp 16 and the curtain supporting member 3. It will be seen that by adjusting the bolt and nut 17, the parts 7 and 8 may be held against relative movement, the clamp 16 whereby this result is effected, serving likewise as a suspension element to receive the flexible member 5.

In Figs. A and 5 of the drawings, a slight modification is shown. As there delineated, the traveler 18 is spaced inwardly from the ends of the parts 7 and 8. The insertion of the connecting elements 22 through the parts 7 and 8 and through the traveler 18, produces the compression denoted by the numeral 15, whereby one of the parts 7 and 8 is adapted to serve as a stop for the other. As seen most clearly in Fig. 5, the extremities of the traveler 18 may be forwardly bent, as at 19, there being openings 20 in these bent portions 19, adapted to receive the rods 2.

hen the form shown in Figs. 4 and 5 is employed, it will be seen that the curtain 4 extends beyond the travelers 18, so as to hide the said travelers and the rods 2, when the curtain is drawn down.

In both forms of the invention, the curtain supporting member 3 may be elevated or depressed to the required height, and there secured, the curtain 4t being manipulated in the usual manner to roll up and to unroll the same. Moreover, the device is so constructed that it may readily be elongated or telescoped, to accommodate window frames of different widths. The clamp 16 serves as a means for receiving one end of the flexible element 5, as a means for holding the parts 7 and 8 against relative movement, and as a means for stiffening the curtain supporting member 3 so that the same will not readily become buckled or bent.

IVhat is claimed is 1. Ina device of the class described, a curtain-supporting member comprising telescoped inner and outer parts; a traveler disposed transversely of the inner part and secured thereto; a traveler disposed transversely of the outer part; and securing devices connecting the last mentioned traveler with the outer part, the securing devices comprising the outer part, to serve as an abutment for the inner part.

2. In a device of the class described, a supporting member; curtain brackets thereon; travelers upon the supporting member, the travelers being adapted to receive a guide .whereby the supporting member may be slidably mounted; and headed connecting elements constituting means for uniting the supporting member, the brackets, and the travelers, the brackets andthe travelers constituting washers to receive the heads of the connecting elements.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my s1gnature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM G. TEMPLETON.

W'itnesses:

G. E. DOYLE, FRANK B. OCI-ISENREITER.

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